![]() ![]() I’m skeptical that this will amount to much more than a giant distraction. My high-level, non-lawyer-who-hasn’t-read-the-whole-filing take is that the DOJ’s case stretches existing law, but it may prove useful in revealing information and in shifting public opinion. ![]() Blocking third-party developers from creating competing digital wallets with tap-to-pay functionality for the iPhone.Limiting the functionality of third-party smartwatches with its iPhones and making it harder for Apple Watch users to switch from the iPhone due to compatibility issues. ![]() Suppressing the quality of messaging between the iPhone and competing platforms like Android.Blocking cloud-streaming apps for things like video games that would lower the need for more expensive hardware.Disrupting “super apps” that encompass many different programs and could degrade “iOS stickiness” by making it easier for iPhone users to switch to competing devices.The government points to several different ways that Apple has allegedly illegally maintained its monopoly: The tech giant prevented other companies from offering applications that compete with Apple products like its digital wallet, which could diminish the value of the iPhone, and hurts consumers and smaller companies that compete with it, the government said. In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. The Justice Department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, the federal government’s most significant challenge to the reach and influence of the company that has put iPhones in the hands of more than a billion people. David McCabe and Tripp Mickle ( PDF, CourtListener, Hacker News, MacRumors): ![]()
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